Chapter 180 Fortunately there was a power outage
The kitten's cry sounded a little miserable, but Tan Zhaozhao, the kitten's mother, misunderstood the meaning.
When she saw the little fish stuck in Xingxing's paw, she didn't care about the dirty water. Her eyes and eyebrows were full of surprise and smiles. She praised him even in the rain: "Wow! Is this the little fish Xingxing caught by himself? The baby is really amazing. He can catch little fish and eat them by himself when he is only one month old!"
Even Li Shan was surprised. She stretched out her hand to help Tan Zhaozhao pull the fish off the kitten's paw and stuff it into the cat bag that had already been filled with water.
Tan Zhaozhao stroked the kitten's wet fur and said gently, "Mom will help Xingxing collect this little fish first. I'll cook it for you when we get home. You can't eat raw food, or you'll have diarrhea."
She treats the stars very delicately.
But from today on, the kitten will have to suffer with her.
Just like this outing——
Xingxing was comforted by her mother's praise.
It was still a little stiff, with its paw that was stained with dirty water half-raised and unwilling to actually land on the backpack, occasionally shaking it, but its mood was much better than before.
When Xingxing was very young, he was a dirty cub picked up by Qiuqiu in the garbage dump, but later he was raised cleanly by humans and has not encountered such a dirty situation for a long time.
I was a little confused at first, but now with the help of my mother, I am slowly getting used to it.
It even began to stare at the small fish that occasionally swam through the dirty water. Although it would no longer stretch out its claws to catch them, it was still a little eager to try.
But soon it gave up on this idea.
Because my mother finally decided to go to the farm.
"I heard a sound." Tan Zhaozhao frowned and said, "I don't know if it was a surviving animal or a person who didn't evacuate."
The farm was in the open space behind the forest. It was blocked by trees and they couldn't see clearly what was going on inside.
But since they had heard the noise, no matter how much they disliked the dirtiness of the water, they could only hold their breath, stick their upper bodies above the water, and slowly swim towards that side, groping for the trees one by one.
Xingxing squatted on the waterproof backpack. It had no weight at all, so even if he squatted on it, the rain water could not accumulate into puddles on the backpack.
The two people and the cat swam slowly inside, and the sound that Tan Zhaozhao had just heard became clearer and clearer.
"It's a person." Li Shan stopped and looked at the man who was squatting on the roof of the breeding shed with chickens and ducks.
"Should we talk to Captain Tang first?" Li Shan asked softly.
Tan Zhaozhao nodded and said, "Let's swim to the bottom of the shed first. The rain is too heavy and our cell phones will soon break down. There is no place to repair our cell phones right now. We can also learn about the survivor's situation and tell Captain Tang together."
When they were introduced today, the two knew that the person Tang Jin mentioned yesterday was an ordinary police officer. He looked like a college student who had not yet entered society, but in fact he was the leader of this team.
So the two of them naturally called him captain.
When we got here, there were actually fewer chicken and duck feces in the water, because the accumulated water had all flowed out, and this place had already been almost washed away. Floating in the water were more corpses of chickens, ducks, and geese that were blocked in the woods, and chicken, duck, and goose eggs that were soaked in the water.
The two swam in, and the man squatting on the roof finally spotted them. However, he did not seem happy to see their saviors. Instead, he loudly asked what they were doing there.
Just by listening to the tone, Tan Zhaozhao knew that this person thought they were here to "get rich".
Although their original purpose was to come in and find some fertilized eggs.
Neither of them answered immediately. Instead, they held their breath and swam quickly in the rain to under the shed. Then they wiped off the water on their faces that almost blocked their eyes. After catching their breath, one of them sent a message to Tang Jin, while the other spoke loudly to communicate with the people above.
Xingxing squatted on the backpack and shook off the wet hair on his body.
The next second, my mother reached out and scooped it up while communicating with the people above and placed it in the crook of her neck.
Her whole body was soaked, except for that place, which, although wet, still had a hint of heat.
The stars don’t feel cold originally.
But when it lay wetly against its mother's neck, feeling the faint warmth from the human body and the gentle beating of the pulse and blood vessels, it suddenly shivered slightly.
Then he curled up into a ball, trying even harder to press his small body, which also radiated a faint warmth, tightly against his mother's skin.
Li Shan put away her phone and said to Tan Zhaozhao, "You guessed it right. Captain Tang is still arguing with the survivors. Their people have also dispersed. Only Captain Tang stayed there. The others have dispersed to look for other survivors."
There was only one car, and it had to be parked at a high place where the water was not too deep. There was a small lifeboat in the car. This was their means of transportation to search for other survivors.
Tan Zhaozhao and Li Shan also had some, but... in the martial arts hall, they didn't want to take up the team's quota and delay others from finding survivors.
But now it’s different. There are survivors here, and dozens of surviving chickens, ducks and geese that are also shivering.
These are also very valuable properties and supplies. If possible, Tang Jin and his team must rescue them together with the survivors.
So Tang Jin asked Li Shan and Tan Zhaozhao to calm the survivors down first and said that someone would be sent over soon.
While waiting, Tan Zhaozhao also learned the information of the survivor. He was the owner of the farm. He had been here when the heavy rain came, and had been busy building sheds for the chickens, ducks and geese. Later, the rain accumulated more and more, and when he called, it happened that the authorities were busy evacuating people from the entire city, and he really couldn't bear to give up his family business, so he could only be trapped here, watching many chickens, ducks and geese drown, be washed away, and even run away with the water.
The people squatting next to him were all tied up with ropes by his quick eyes and hands.
If no one else came, he said he would like to let these swimming poultry take him out.
Then Tan Zhaozhao found out that the boss could not swim and was also watersick.
She also did not forget the original purpose of her and her cat's arduous journey here, and asked the boss if there were any fertilized eggs in the shed that could be taken back to hatch.
The boss told them to go to the incubator next door to see if there were any eggs that had not been damaged by the soaking.
"There should be some more in the batch at the top. Those are the eggs that can hatch in the next two days." The boss reminded the two and told them not to leave the eggs anywhere, but to put them in the boxes for hatching eggs. Otherwise, the eggs would easily rot if they were exposed to cold or rain, and the little ones inside would easily be unable to break out of their shells and be suffocated to death.
Tan Zhaozhao swam over with Li Shan and Xingxing.
As soon as the door was pushed open, the dumped eggshells, egg liquid, and the hatched but drowned little bodies all poured out along with the accumulated water.
Fortunately, they were prepared in advance and were not thrown into the water and carried away.
After the water inside and outside became equal and stable, the two swam in to check the remaining incubators that had not been filled with water.
Only four boxes were intact. They were the ones that the boss had deliberately put on top when he saw the rain was getting heavier.
After checking, the two men released the animals back, chatting with the boss who was shivering on the roof with his chickens, ducks and geese, while waiting for Tang Jin to arrange people for rescue.
The people who came were not members of the team they knew, and they were driving a rescue boat that could carry many people.
Without much greeting, I first rescued the boss and a group of livestock from the roof, and then helped the boss count the chicks and good eggs that could still be taken away. The boss wanted to use some of them to continue incubating, and he could also use the good eggs as food.
"Young man, can I ask where you are going to assign someone like me now?" The boss was wearing a life jacket and looked like a frightened drowned rat.
The soldier in charge of the rescue replied: "Don't worry, we have several special rescue and resettlement points in the city. When you go there, you can have some hot soup and hot meals, and ask someone for a set of clean clothes to change into. Don't catch a cold after being in the rain for so long."
When the boss heard this, he immediately agreed with peace of mind, and then taught the two girls who found him how to hatch eggs and raise them better and faster.
During this time, he also curiously looked at the kitten that had been squatting obediently in the crook of Tan Zhaozhao's neck. Finally, when they got off the boat, he still reminded them: "Cats love to eat eggs, chickens and ducklings the most. You must take good care of the cat, otherwise all your hard work will be in vain!"
Xingxing opened her eyes and looked at him, then looked at the basket of egg seedlings he had shared out for her mother, and tilted her head to gently rub her mother's ear.
It knows better than this human how difficult it is for its mother to find these things, so it will not waste its mother's hard work.
"We're finally back." When they stepped onto the step without water, Tan Zhaozhao and Li Shan looked at each other, and their tense nerves relaxed at the same time.
"Let's go. Let's go back and make some ginger and sugar water. It's just right for drinking after taking a shower." Tan Zhaozhao held the cat and carried their bags, while Li Shan held the basket of egg seedlings. The two did not completely relax their vigilance until they actually opened the door and walked in, then they relaxed.
Not only people need to take a bath, cats also need to be washed with clean water, and then use a hair dryer to blow all the fur on their bodies until it becomes fluffy.
Qiuqiu secretly recorded the whole process of Xingxing's transformation from a drowned cat to a furry ball.
It was almost noon by now.
Before Tan Zhaozhao cooked, she asked Li Shan to ask Tang Jin and the others what they were going to eat for lunch. After learning that they had food supplies at the resettlement site, she cooked lunch for the two of them.
After a tiring morning, they were physically exhausted, and had been soaking in cold water for so long that they had no energy to make lunch. In addition, when Tan Zhaozhao went to light the fire, he found that it would not light. The two thought about just making two buckets of instant noodles and eating them.
Tan Zhaozhao held the instant noodle bucket and looked out the window at the heavy rain that was still falling. He originally wanted to say that he would try not to go out if possible, but when the words came to his lips, he thought about how they were now members of the team, so he swallowed them back and said to Li Shan, "The government has cut off the power and gas. Let's go and get some of the supplies hidden in the martial arts hall this afternoon."
Before the gas ran out, there was no electricity last night.
But there is power generation facilities at home, so I can take a hot bath and eat instant noodles when I come back.
"How do you know it was officially banned?" Li Shan also held a bucket of instant noodles.
Tan Zhaozhao pointed at the heavy rain outside and said, "The water is so deep. If there is a problem with the circuit in any area..."
Li Shan thought of the two men's boldness in the morning and shuddered belatedly. A chill climbed up her spine to the back of her head.
Luckily the power went out!!!
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